3. Avoiding a Financial Collapse

4. How We Get Into Trouble Proverbs 27:20 Human desires are like the world of the dead -- there is always room for more .

5. What We Hope Having More Will Bring * More Satisfaction . You will never be satisfied if you long to be rich. You will never get all you want. Ecclesiastes 5:10

6. What We Hope Having More Will Bring * More Significance . A man's true life is not made up of the things he owns, no matter how rich he may be. Luke 12:15 (GN)

7. What We Hope Having More Will Bring * More Security . Your money can be gone in a flash, as if it had grown wings and flown away like an eagle. Proverbs 23:5 (GN)

8. What Having More Brings * More Expenses . The more money you have, the more you spend, right up to the limits of your income... Eccl. 5:11 (LB)

9. What Having More Brings * More Worries . A working man... can get a good night's sleep. But the rich man has so much that he stays awake worrying! Ecclesiastes 5:12 (GN)

10. What Having More Brings * More Pain When it’s Lost. Risky investments turn sour, and soon there's nothing left... It is all swept away. The rest of his life he's under a cloud - gloomy, discouraged, frustrated and angry. Eccl. 5:14-17

11. Avoid Financial Trouble 1. Keep Good Records . Riches can disappear fast... so watch your business interests closely . Know the state of your flocks. Proverbs 27:23-24 (LB)

12. Avoid Financial Trouble 2. Plan Your Spending . Plan carefully and you will have plenty. If you act too quickly, you will never have enough. Proverbs 21:5 (GN)

13. Avoid Financial Trouble 2. Plan Your Spending . Stupid people spend their money as fast as they get it. Proverbs 21:20b

14. Avoid Financial Trouble 3. Save for the Future. The wise man saves for the future... Proverbs 21:20a (LB)

15. Avoid Financial Trouble 3. Save for the Future. He grows rich who accumulates little by little. Proverbs 13:11 (JB)

16. Avoid Financial Trouble 4. Tithe back to God. Honor the Lord by giving him the first part of all your income, and He will fill your barns... to OVERFLOW! Proverbs 3:9-10

17. Avoid Financial Trouble 4. Tithe back to God. The purpose of tithing is to teach you to always put God first ." Deuteronomy 14:23

18. Avoid Financial Trouble 5. Enjoy What You Have It is better to be satisfied with what you have than to always be wanting something else. Ecclesiastes 6:9 (GN)

19. Avoid Financial Trouble 5. Enjoy What You Have If God give a man wealth and property... he should be grateful and enjoy what he has worked for. It is a gift from God. Ecclesiastes 5:19 (GN)

20. The Bottom Line 5. Enjoy What You Have If I have put my trust in money, if my happiness depends on wealth... it would mean that I have denied the God of heaven. Job 31:24, 28